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Updated: June 7, 2025
At once I flung myself into conversation with her, in which we were both so deeply absorbed, that when the L.C.P. suggested going down to dinner, nobody can have been surprised when I said, "Please, all whom it may concern, I want to sit next to Freule Menela van der Windt at the dinner table."
But, as the ladies said good-night to us at the foot of the stairs, Freule van der Windt contrived to whisper, as she slipped her hand into mine "For better for worse, I've taken your advice, Mr. Starr. I am absolutely free." "How did you manage it?" I heard myself asking. "Robert insisted on living in Rotterdam.
"I thought you seemed quite fascinated by Freule Menela," exclaimed the poor innocent one, "I asked Mr. van Buren if he were not jealous." "How unkind of you!" "I didn't mean to be unkind at least, I hope I didn't," said Phyllis. "Only, do you know, dear brother since I am to confide my real feelings to you I'm never quite sure of myself where that girl is concerned. I can't stand her.
Lilli and Lisbeth merely looked flurried and pink when Freule Menela came airily on board with me, and Alb appeared interested in giving instructions to Hendrik, who disputed respectfully with Tibe possession of countless yards of his beloved cotton waste. At last, however, I began to wonder why we did not get away.
Perhaps my sisters will go; and after we have finished the pictures at The Hague, we will meet my mother and my fiancée, Freule Menela van der Windt, at the race grounds about two, and the show will not be over till seven, so dinner will be late." "You Dutch are a strong race," I murmured.
If she hasn't she has been flirting with him horribly. It was like finding an old friend to see Mr. van Buren waiting to meet us at quaint little Volendam. He explained that Freule Menela had gone to Brussels to pay a visit; so, hearing from me when we would arrive, he ran out to inquire how his cousin was getting on.
Freule Menela van der Windt is not pretty; but without her pince-nez, she looked almost piquant in the pink lights and blue shadows which laced our features as we passed, for which I was devoutly thankful, as it made my task comparatively easy. I found her softer, more feminine, more sympathetic, than she had been in the hotel. She would, she said, like to see America; and that gave me my chance.
"You and he had better take advantage of the lull to be married," I said aloud. "The lull?" "In Freule Menela. She'll be hailing and thundering and lightning soon." "Oh, do you think she'll try to get Robert back again?" gasped Phyllis. "Unless another and riper fruit drops into her mouth." "As if it would! You frighten me.
When it occurred to him to drink the milk, unenriched by such an addition, we were all eating pink and white ices, and Dutch cakes that must have been delicious to those who had no Freule Menela sticking in their throats. Phyllis walked beside me all the way back to the hotel, and was dearer than ever now that, through my own quixotic act, I saw her rapidly becoming unattainable.
"I must congratulate van Buren," I said, "or he will believe I'm jealous." So I shook hands with the Viking, having blessed the pair, and was in the act of annexing Nell when the alleged Lady MacNairne found it convenient to give me Freule Menela's message.
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